Leadership U

To thrive, all companies will need to reimagine their future. This requires the skill of anticipation. To anticipate, leaders must predict tomorrow, based on accurately perceiving the reality of today. Leaders must move from seeing only “this is what is happening now” to the lens of “what this means for the future.” In other words, based on what you know now, what are the consequences—both positive and negative? As leaders visualize all potential outcomes, they can make better decisions. This one-hour, virtual session will focus on helping leaders assess and extract meaning from the current reality, clearly, to project what might happen in the future. The more clearly leaders see the here and now, the better they’ll project what is around the next bend.

Navigate focuses on how to be proactive, purposeful and agile (or with agility) to course-correct in real time. It requires never losing sight of the ultimate goal. By making proactive, purposeful decisions that determine both direction and velocity for what happens next, leaders can provide the roadmap where their people can ask questions, engage in discussion, and then execute. This one-hour, virtual session provides leaders with the skills to help identify purpose to help navigate more effectively.

As a leader, do your messages command attention and move people to action? Leaders can’t just transmit information; they must connect emotionally with others to inspire. In challenging times, people want to know the truth, however, how leaders communicate to inspire people to believe, then enable that belief to become reality is where leadership lives and breathes. This one-hour, virtual session will engage leaders in honing their message and point of view in a concise, compelling way. The goal: capture your audience’s attention, connect emotionally and move them to action.

Leaders need to listen, especially to what they may not want to hear. To listen to others, leaders must listen with genuine empathy. By modeling authenticity, leaders can make it safe for others to share the truth—not what they think you want to hear. This one-hour, virtual session will explore empathy and compassion and the role these play in opening the door to authentic conversations. A leader’s ability to ‘hear’ more than the facts not only creates stronger connections but it creates an environment where people feel valued because they truly feel understood.

There’s nothing like a crisis or a complex problem to accelerate learning and force a leader to pivot. This is learning agility to the “Nth” degree. Officially, learning agility is defined as the ability and willingness to apply past experiences to new challenges. Or it’s knowing what to do when you don’t know what to do. At the core of learning agility is the ability to turn off ‘autopilot;’ keeping things comfortable, defaulting to the same patterns, day after day. Instead, leaders need to find new and different ways to problem solve and see issues. This one-hour, virtual session will explore the tools needed to be curious, engaged—and genuinely committed to move from autopilot to bring about even better decisions for an organization and their people.

Leadership means meeting people where they are—especially in times of chaos, change or uncertainty. When “perform” becomes “survive” organizations must continue to move forward—but where should you push and where should you pause? Are leaders courageous enough to deal with the immediate problems but also courageous enough to do the things that will connect the organization to the future? In this one-hour, virtual session leaders will explore the role that displaying courage helps teams move the business forward while keeping employees afloat—with appropriate hope for the future.

The world we live in today, leaders are struggling to find the right words, the appropriate intention and meaningful actions to take in regard to recent events about race and racism. Say nothing or say the wrong thing...the risk feels high in either case and the 'right' answers are scarce. This one-hour, virtual session will focus on how bias, and socialization can drive individual reactions to current events and impact the way we interact. This session will help leaders start to have real conversations about race and bias.